Email based workflow

[hauleth]

I am getting used to email based workflow in Git I wanted to test out jj, however from what I see it is not supported (except for the Git compatibility layer). Are there any plans to support such workflow natively?

[martinvonz]

I don't personally have any plans to implement it, but I wouldn't reject patches from someone else.

Does it work well for you to use regular git commands in a colocated repo until we have native support?

[martinvonz]

I see. You can run regular git commands in a colocated repo, so I expect it to work pretty well. It's just that you're pretty much constantly in a detached HEAD state, but hopefully that doesn't impact the email-sending commands (I don't know if they use the current branch to generate a header or something).

[Zambito1]

I have used a colocated repo with an email based workflow; it works fine with treating the detatched HEAD as the "working branch" for generating patches.

That said I would also appreciate native patch support if anyone is able to implement it :)

[BatmanAoD]

Of note: it appears that jj diff --git actually generates output close enough to git diff --patch to use with git apply.

[SamuelV7]

Has this been implemented yet? If not, I'm happy to work on it and submit a patch

[PhilipMetzger]

Work for it is tracked in #4438 although that largely depends on #2702